The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
Eart,r, Anrme, and Gardsm.
Various Notes.
he dull hoe wastes strength.

The dull hoe wastes strength.
Moisture is essential to fertility.
The carbon of plants comes from the
air.
The most effectual remedy for Shiny
greasy drain pipes is copperas dissolved
and left to work gradually through the
pipe.
The man who uses tool weighing three
ounces more than is necessary handles in
ten hours work 112 pounds that are SUI
perfuous.
With hand cultivator in a garden one
can get over about ten times as much
ground as with hoe, but it is not so easy
to work the cultivator.
Massachusetts experiments show that
planting medium-sized whole potatoes
gives better returns than when half po-
tstoes OF the same size are planted.
The Country Gentleman says that fiat
culture gives from Is to 20 per cent more
potatoes than killing, which in ''most in
stances is positively detrimental to pro-
ductiveness"
The Commissioner of Agriculture is
making strong appeal on the impor-
lance OF preserving our forests. At their
present rate of destruction, if no meas.
ures are taken to check the decline, forests
will have entirely disappeared in hun
dred years.
Prof. l.. B. Arnold says butter keeps
best, and Is fresh and sweet longest, when
granulated in the churn and freed from
buttermilk by working. It should then
be soaked in unprecedented brine at 60
degrees for half an hour, and packed at
once without working.
The farmers OF Texas, Arkansas and
Louisiana are preparing to build cotton,
cotton-seed oil and -four mills at different
centers in those States. This will enable
them to get local markets and fair prices
for these products. The farmers will own
the mills in common.
The Raral World dilates on the de-
STABILITY of employing married men as
farm laborers. A married man will be
less addicted to dissolute spendthrift
habits; he will do more and better work
than an unmarried man, having more in
centives to labor and taking more pleas.
ure in his work. Besides, who can esti-
mate the advantages of having the farm
help cared for outside the farmers fam
lily.
To induce hen to lay, let the nest be
partly shaded. When she wants to set
if you wish to remove her do it at night,
and make her surroundings as nearly as
possible like those of the nest she laid in.
On farm where there are many hooks
and corners, and where the farmer has
some one to attend to his fowls, boxes
may be put in number OF places, and
the fowls will select and lay, each in her
favorite nest, and when the time for set
ting has come, each will go to her accus-
toned nest without much changing or
confusion; but where the accommodations
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given to the nests.
A successful poultry raiser feeds wheat
in the morning, barley at noon and wheat
in the evening. In addition to the bar
ley he gives the Stops and refuse from
the kitchen, after boiling it, The wheat
gives rich yellow color to the yolks
which is so much desired in the city,
where eggs are sold in the retail markets.
He says one great mistake many chicken
raisers make is in feeding chickens too
much, and this accounts for their be-
coming diseased.
An Ohio farmer says orchard grass
will grow thicker coating of muck than
any grass he knows, hence he recon-
mends it as best for meadows that are
liable to overflow. Redtop will outlive'
all the rest of the grasses under water.